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| S73 T AMG: Pagani power in an S-Class wagon - ONLY REGISTERED AND ACTIVATED USERS CAN SEE ALL LINKS - CLICK HERE TO REGISTER - ONLY REGISTERED AND ACTIVATED USERS CAN SEE ALL LINKS - CLICK HERE TO REGISTER Close your eyes and imagine working at AMG, Mercedes' own in-house tuning division that should by now be familiar to everyone. Now go back a decade and imagine being in Affalterbach then. As part of the AMG team, you've had your share of kicks developing monster engines and shoehorning them into otherwise ordinary luxury sedans, and now you've just developed an even crazier engine for the Pagani Zonda. You're looking at the supercar engine, and you're looking at a big ol' S-Class sedan. So tempting, if only someone would give you the budget to put the two together. Enter stage left the Sultan of Brunei, a monarch with a penchant for crazy cars and the money to make them reality. So in you shoehorn the 7.3-liter DOHC 48-valve V12, all 565 horses worth, and create a monster of a super-sport-sedan. While you're at it, why not fit a special exhaust, brakes, suspension, wheels and full custom interior. Oh yeah, and just for kicks, why not make it a wagon while you're at it. The result: the cartoonishly sinister S73 T AMG. The Sultan was reported to have originally ordered 15, then decreased the commission to 10 (the oil business must have been slow that year), and sources estimate that a total of 18 were built, with three remaining in AMG's custody. Suddenly the more recent idea of dropping a Lamborghini V10 into an Audi sedan doesn't seem quite so crazy, does it? - ONLY REGISTERED AND ACTIVATED USERS CAN SEE ALL LINKS - CLICK HERE TO REGISTER - ONLY REGISTERED AND ACTIVATED USERS CAN SEE ALL LINKS - CLICK HERE TO REGISTER - ONLY REGISTERED AND ACTIVATED USERS CAN SEE ALL LINKS - CLICK HERE TO REGISTER |
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| Re: S73 T AMG: Pagani power in an S-Class wagon seems like the dude that wrote the article belives this engine was made especially for pagani.. at that point it wasent made for pagani.. at that point it was used in AMG cars..like the SL73 AMG.. ![]() |
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| Re: S73 T AMG: Pagani power in an S-Class wagon What in the world. The front end is from the CL two generations ago, the tail lights from the W140 and the shape of the rear from the previous E-class estate. |
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| Re: S73 T AMG: Pagani power in an S-Class wagon Ugly as sin. I always hated the C140 CL Coupe. UGLY cannot even begin to describe it. And a W140 estate wasn't exactly a good idea as well. ![]() |
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| Re: S73 T AMG: Pagani power in an S-Class wagon Whoa.... I posted those pictures here awhile back... they are putting their own watermark on those photos? jeez... The photo credit should go to the car dealer that was selling it... |
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| Re: S73 T AMG: Pagani power in an S-Class wagon Quote:
The word crazy doesn't even describe this car, I don't like the looks, but it must be really fast! | |
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